Comments on: Donald Rumsfeld calls Raiders “evil”http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/02/17/donald-rumseld-calls-raiders-evil/
ProFootballTalk on NBCSports.comTue, 03 Mar 2015 20:24:59 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: theoriginalcaptainmarvelhttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/02/17/donald-rumseld-calls-raiders-evil/#comment-973654
Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:55:34 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=111908#comment-973654Yeah, the reason everyone commenting is liberal is because it’s also a story about Los Angeles, where it’s mostly liberals. That’s why California is way beyond bankrupt. They’d be long gone if it weren’t for the other states bailing them out.
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Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:14:07 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=111908#comment-970110That SOB has no right to call anybody evil. He IS evil.
]]>By: baseballstarshttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/02/17/donald-rumseld-calls-raiders-evil/#comment-969362
Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:05:59 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=111908#comment-969362I’m not a liberal, but I hate Rumsfeld. The lies he and his ilk told and acted upon will haunt this nation for a long, long time.
]]>By: ohioraiderhttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/02/17/donald-rumseld-calls-raiders-evil/#comment-968595
Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:41:45 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=111908#comment-968595I guess this is why he helped create the Patriot act
]]>By: bertcampanerishttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/02/17/donald-rumseld-calls-raiders-evil/#comment-968237
Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:38:19 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=111908#comment-968237Raiders, meh. Now if said the Ravens, we’d be on to something.
]]>By: qb19http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/02/17/donald-rumseld-calls-raiders-evil/#comment-968177
Fri, 18 Feb 2011 04:51:41 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=111908#comment-968177And how much of that Yellow Towel Uranium did you find Rummy?
]]>By: radrntnhttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/02/17/donald-rumseld-calls-raiders-evil/#comment-968133
Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:48:01 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=111908#comment-968133it’s good to be feared again
]]>By: cur68http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/02/17/donald-rumseld-calls-raiders-evil/#comment-968126
Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:42:59 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=111908#comment-968126Well, I realize most of you know this, but one or two seem not to; Rumpy was making joke. Wasn’t particularly funny, but it was an attempt at a human emotion, something he’d stopped having in the mid 70’s. Encourage him a bit folks. It’s a long way back from the place he’s at and he deserves a bit of a prop for making the attempt. He looks better these days , too. He’s filed off the horns and the orthotics are making his hooves seem almost normal. When he takes the plunge and has the tail removed he’ll be nearly there. Lets all try and help, eh? It’s an immortal soul we’re trying to rescue.
]]>By: lanflfanhttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/02/17/donald-rumseld-calls-raiders-evil/#comment-967723
Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:36:26 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=111908#comment-967723I think dementia is setting in for ol’ Rummy. I know their fans are called “Raider Nation” but they aren’t an actual nation. Damn funny quote though, I’m sure Undead Al even got a chuckle or two out of it.
]]>By: pftareraiderhatershttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/02/17/donald-rumseld-calls-raiders-evil/#comment-967623
Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:33:29 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=111908#comment-967623@chapnastier

if you were in congress and were told we need to live in “fear” every day because their are WOMD and we are going to die…how would you vote…..say what you want about Obama, but it seems to me that we never hear about “we are at level orange” today ….that seems to have gone bye bye…..isn’t spreading the fear of evil, evil in it self. so get real the guys a douche bag…raider hater or not.

]]>By: pftareraiderhatershttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/02/17/donald-rumseld-calls-raiders-evil/#comment-967604
Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:20:01 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=111908#comment-967604he is just another hater, and the king of lies……i guess he is still looking for those weapons of mass destrcuction that he and his pal told us about…..really he is responsible for thousands of lives and bloodshed in the middle east….so who is really evil?
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Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:51:29 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=111908#comment-967576Hello, this is a sports section….if you want to be political go freakin turn on Rush, Hannity, Oreiley, …. people are so soft these days taking everything up the you know what!!! …. Raider fan till the end regardless of the record. .. yeah were something else but were raiders and al davis is a legend. …. football people not politics!!
]]>By: crise40ghttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/02/17/donald-rumseld-calls-raiders-evil/#comment-967573
Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:48:36 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=111908#comment-967573All Raider Haters = D Rumsfeld

Where are the WMDs you ask? Might not be in the middle east but you might wanna ask the rest of the AFC West about that. I think they’re all taking the side of Rummy. LOL

Win, lost, or tie…Raiders ’til I die!

]]>By: brokenballzhttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/02/17/donald-rumseld-calls-raiders-evil/#comment-967510
Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:08:03 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=111908#comment-967510I had to reset my password just to get back into this tripe kitchen. Now then, watch out:

The simple fact that Rummy tags the Raiders as “evil” is funny as all hell. What does this guy know about evil, aside from the fact he assisted W and his cronies about in putting the USA to war against Iraq based on lies? The guy is old, demented, and about 2 steps away from useless (just like our friend Al The Cryptkeeper, but at least Al doesn’t make assumptions, he just gets his decisions wrong). So, unless Rummy here serves some purpose in life after a Cabinet post (such as gumming farina for his fellow rest home residents) it’s best to let him prattle away on subjects that don’t even concern him.

If they would just release some footage of an actual airplane hitting the Pentagon, it would quell a lot of the conspiracy theories. Too bad the Government considers us all mindless sheep incapable of handling the truth.

]]>By: giablommihttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/02/17/donald-rumseld-calls-raiders-evil/#comment-967445
Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:19:23 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=111908#comment-967445“It’s only a matter of time before someone makes a post here about how 9/11 was inside job.”
^^^^^
That’s actually what you just did. How passive aggressive of you. I’m not going to claim it’s an inside job. But the government’s official story (quite a conspiracy in and of itself!!) frankly sounds as far fetched (if not more?) than some conspiracy theories I’ve heard.

Just out of curiousity, are you aware that Donald Rumsfeld actually slipped up and stated that Flight 93 was SHOT DOWN?

Don’t take my word for it, its on youtube, just type “Rumsfeld Flight 93 shot down”. It’s there. I posted a link earlier but PFT censored it (of course).

Bottom line, I am not claiming that it was or was not an “inside job”. The fact remains though that there are many unanswered questions and pieces of the puzzle of the official story that do not add up. Hard for some governemtn loving brainwashed sheeple to understand, I realize.

]]>By: nygiantstoneshttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/02/17/donald-rumseld-calls-raiders-evil/#comment-967355
Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:15:49 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=111908#comment-967355Donald Rumsfeld should look in the mirror. That guy is one step in ideology away from being a fascist along the lines of the Nazis. Hey Donald, what happened to the $2.4 Trillion you announced that the Pentagon “lost” the day before 9/11?
]]>By: nineleveninsidejobhttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/02/17/donald-rumseld-calls-raiders-evil/#comment-967344
Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:06:39 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=111908#comment-967344This evil tool made aspartame legal (It’s a POISON)
]]>By: philsimmsisadouchehttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/02/17/donald-rumseld-calls-raiders-evil/#comment-967341
Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:02:29 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=111908#comment-967341Rumsfeld never said he was a Steelers fan. He just said the Raiders were evil. Read the article before you comment next time. The interviewer said he was pulling for the Steelers. The evil comment came as a response to that and Rumsfeld picked no favorite.

An excerpt from the article above:Rumsfeld ended the sit-down by asking Gideon Rachman of the Financial Times (via SFWeekly.com) whether Rachman was pulling for the Steelers or the Packers. Rachman said the Steelers, “because of the epic games against the Oakland Raiders in the 1970s.”

Said Rumsfeld in response, “Nobody could support the Raiders. They’re evil.”

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Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:51:46 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=111908#comment-967321If Al Davis ran a country, you just know that country would not merely be like a version of the US under some president you don’t like based on your political party. If Al Davis ran a country it would be more like Iran, North Korea, Myanmar, etc. Tom Cable would run the military and beat his former top aides in dark rooms, under Davis turned on him. Stalin and Mao were more loyal to their nefarious top enforcers than Davis has been to coaches. I have compared Davis to other aging insane dictators and I think he is the closest thing we have to that in the NFL. Don’t blame Rumsfeld for a very reasonable comparison just because you disagree with his politics.
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Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:49:11 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=111908#comment-967318chapnastier says:
Feb 17, 2011 10:34 AM
@ gia

Calling Bush or Rummy war criminals is so asinine. You do realize that congress had to vote to authorize the use of force in Iraq right? So by your theory every single member of congress, both democrats and republicans, who voted to authorize the Iraq war are also war criminals. Let’s not forget the millions of people of Iraq who were subject to a brutal dictator for years.
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You do realize the Congress authorized the use of force in Iraq based upon lies told by Rumsfeld and Powell? And that lying to Congress is a felony?

It’s not our job to liberate every population subject to a dictatorship. And if we really believe that is our responsibility, which of course we don’t, we’re going to be awfully busy: Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Chechnya, Somalia, Cuba, Cambodia, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kosovo are all dictatorships.

How many other sovereign nations do you want to invade? Maybe we should just focus on the ones that have oil.

Let me preface this by saying Super Bowls are all that matter. However, how do you explain this? I’ve yet to find any Patriots hater that can provide a plausible explanation for why the Patriots record is BETTER post-Spygate.

Until someone can do so, your argument comes off as nothing more than a FALLACY and perhaps also sour grapes. Anyone?

Calling Bush or Rummy war criminals is so asinine. You do realize that congress had to vote to authorize the use of force in Iraq right? So by your theory every single member of congress, both democrats and republicans, who voted to authorize the Iraq war are also war criminals. Let’s not forget the millions of people of Iraq who were subject to a brutal dictator for years.
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That’s some impressive logic. Not.
Rumsfeld has admitted to violating the Geneva Convention. So has Bush and Cheney, so by their own admission they have committed crimes. If they were to leave the U.S. they could be arrested, taken to the Hague, and put on trial. Congress did not approve waterboarding and illegal detention, so they are not culpable.
Rummy’s book reveals there were no WMD.
He and Bush and Cheney are guilty, and there should be an investigation.

]]>By: raiderdave8675http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/02/17/donald-rumseld-calls-raiders-evil/#comment-967288
Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:37:18 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=111908#comment-967288People hate and fear what they do not understand………More people involved with the Raiders organization have done things for the game of football and the communities surrounding Oakland and LA then they are ever given credit for. And that’s ok, because the Raiders are the only organization in sports that have it done it our way. Once a Raider always a Raider….if not you’re a hater. Very cut and dry, or Silver and Black as I like to say.
Raiders Forever!!!
PS If the government spent as much time on righting the ship that is this great country, as they did commenting on things outside their arena, we would be much further advanced. Peace and love to the Raider Nation, and forgiveness for all others.
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Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:31:42 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=111908#comment-967277You can’t blame Rumsfeld for hating the Raiders- after all, they started a war based on something they knew was a lie, costing thousands of lives and billions of dollars with no end in sight.

Rummy, Wolfowitz, Cheney et al were directly responsible for manufacturing intelligence and evidence, lying to Congress with impunity and shameless spewing propaganda to get us into Iraq, resulting in thousands of American deaths and the destruction of a sovereign nation. Doesn’t make me proud to be an American.

That said, I don’t give Congress a free pass at all. They are a disgrace to themselves, their constituents and to the great history of this nation. I am neither Democratic nor Republican, Liberal nor Conservative, but clearly the American people gave the Democratic party a mandate in 2006 to hold the Bush Administration responsible for their war crimes and they failed. All are complicit and all are contemptible.

“Says the guy too stupid to realize that he’s also commenting on a football blog. LOL And then you go on to say that if you don’t like America you can leave. LOL Why? Because others on here happen to feel the same as the entire rest of the world and can’t stand Donald freakin’ Rumsfeld? LOL The guy is a tool. As soon as the article said that Rumsfeld said the Raiders are evil every Raider fan in the world should have felt instantly gratified. I’m surprised he didn’t instantly shoot a friend in the face the moment he finished saying it. You must be one of those tools that actually believes the USA is safer because of all the garbage measures put in when he had a hand in power.

I always love the right vs left politics. It’s so stupid. Both sides are completely useless and everything done, left or right, is completely about money. Sometimes they’ll taper it down a bit or put a nice agenda or spin on it, but, in the end, money.

As a Canadian I guess I’ll just go back to waiting to use my one MRI machine with our useless medical system, hey?!!! LOL Believe everything they tell you….LOL”

Agreed. Money isn’t everything, it is the only thing.
I also agree with Gia and really, most of us have already left America, living within its borders, because it is but a mere shell of what it was meant to be. Are people aware that Rumsfield and Cheney have been involved in some capacity or level, since the 70’s in D.C. and the government, with defense, schemes and cover ups…makes it easy to assume that there is indeed a grand master plan and these people are placed accordingly to help carry it out…just wonder what their final objective is. I’m afraid, I don’t really want to know. I do know that with all of the bickering and separation, the poor economy, poor educational system, and a myriad of other problems, that WE ALL have played a hand in creating, with our apathy, indifference and loss of morality, that our founding fathers would be rolling over in their graves nonstop. How embarrassing. And for those who think they are being cute by quipping, “You don’t like it, then leave.” Trust me, many people don’t have the means and money too, but I would wager it is safe to say that many, thousands, if not millions, would leave if they had the means and money too. So do yourself a favor and stop thinking that everything is okay, so great and wonderful. Stop believing they hype that these news networks spoonfeed us and the propaganda from both sides of the aisles. Quit buying into the scare tactics and learn how to become a free thinker. Take off the blind fold, quit being a mindless sheep and quit drinking the Kool-Aid and learn how to investigate and form a rational, reasonable and informed decision. I can only hope that someday our leaders reverse course and start doing the same and realize how great things could truly be, for us and even the world. When we take the time to approach foreign affairs with rational talks, an open mind and understanding of each others cultures and realize in the end, we are not all that different. To offer help and assistance with teaching them things like education and how to grow crops, build businesses and suggest ideas on how to live but understand and accept, that they have their own way of doing certain things, that will indeed never change and be okay with it instead of pissed off and try to force the issues, which causes resentment and hatred of us. We can do this things as well domestically. We all play an important role in this thing called humanity and it can be vastly improved for everyone, with a better moral code, a conscious, with understanding, sensible discussion and debates, and with love and peace. Andy yeah, I may be a dreamer…but I’m not the only one.